May | 2016 | Craig Smith

Renee, Craig and Tony (with a lurking Em Campbell-Pretty) in a very busy corridor with random bells ringing, catch up with Dean Leffingwell, author of numerous books including “Agile Software Requirements” and “Scaling Software Agility” and the creator of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in a very candid discussion:

the journey to SAFe included as a developer building the Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ride and infusion pumps and generally a mission to make quality better
epiphony around Agile was the step change around how teams perform and how they like their work when they perform better
not everything that is old is stupid, “we are discovering new ways of developing software” and we need to ask ourselves are we still discovering
Scrum is the only method that defines what a software team is (roles and size)
SAFe is not a war it is…

MarcusHammarberg Marcus Hammarberg, co-author of “Kanban in Action” talks with Craig at YOW! West in Perth in a sometimes noisy coffee shop at the Parmelia Hilton Perth:

Craig’s quote on the book! “No mucking around … gets to the heart of kanban from the first page. A must-read!”
originally from Sweden, now working for The Salvation Army in Indonesia helping them become more effective
bitten by the Agile bug by demonstrating something embarrassingly small at the end of a sprint and yet he found the stakeholders were overjoyed at just seeing movement
Agile has changed many things that used to manual to be automated, such as testing and deployment, to fit in short cycles
Fred George’s talk “Agile Roots: Use JIT to Go Faster” at YOW! West (slides / video)
Marcus’ talks at YOW! West “Kanban in Action – A Practical Whirlwind Tour of Kanban” (slides

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